LAWS
REGARDING USE OF BICYCLES AND OTHER NONMOTORIZED WHEELED
CONVEYANCES

Mobridge
Municipal Ordinances (MMO)

6-9-1 Licensing Procedures

No person who resides within the City of Mobridge, South
Dakota, shall ride or propel a bicycle on any public street,
alley, sidewalk or upon any public path set aside for the
exclusive use of bicycles unless such bicycle has been
licensed and a license tag is attached thereto as provided
herein.

Application for a bicycle license tag shall be made upon a
form provided by the City Finance Officer. An annual fee of
$1.00 shall be paid to the City Finance Officer. This license
shall expire on December 31 of each year.

6-9-2 Conditions of Licensing
and Regulations for Operation of Licensed Bicycles

A. No bicycle shall be ridden faster than is reasonable
and proper, and every bicycle shall be operated with
reasonable regard to the safety of the operator and any
person upon the public sidewalks, street, alleys and other
public right of way of the City.

B. Every person riding or propelling a bicycle upon any
street or other public highway in the City shall observe all
traffic rules and regulations applicable thereto, and shall
turn only at intersections, signal for all turns, ride at
the right hand side of the sidewalk, street, alley, highway
or right of way, pass to the left
when overtaking and passing vehicles and pass to the right
when meeting vehicles.

C. Carrying articles. No person operating a bicycle shall
carry any package, bundle or article which prevents the
rider from keeping at least one hand upon the handle bars.

D. Clinging to vehicles. No person riding upon any bicycle
shall attach the same or himself to any vehicle upon the
roadway.

E. Parking bicycles.

(1) No person shall park or leave unattended any
bicycle upon a public street except in a regularly
designated parking area.

(2) No person shall park or leave unattended any
bicycle upon a public sidewalk so to obstruct the free
passage thereon by pedestrians, nor shall said bicycle be
parked or left unattended upon any sidewalk so as to
obstruct free passage to and from any doorway.

F. Parent and Guardian liability. The parent of any child
and the guardian of any ward shall not authorize or
knowingly permit any such child or ward to violate any of
the provisions of this article.

9-3-11 Coasters, Roller
Skates, etc., Generally

It shall be unlawful for any person to utilize or use roller
skates or coasters, roller blades, toy vehicles, skateboards
or any nonmotorized wheeled conveyances upon the sidewalks,
streets or parking lots in the downtown core area, which shall
include an area whose boundaries would be Main St. from
Railroad St. north to 6th St and one half (½) block east and
west off of Main Street. This ordinance does not apply to
those used by the handicapped and bicycles are only prohibited
from the sidewalks.

Any person propelling any push-cart or riding a bicycle or an
animal upon a roadway and every person driving any animal,
shall be subject to the provisions of this title applicable to
the operator of any vehicle, except those provisions of this
title with reference to the equipment of vehicles and except
those provisions which by their very
nature can have no application.

South Dakota Codified Laws (SDCL)

32-20B-2
Operation on sidewalk or
crosswalk--Rights of bicyclist--Duty to stop

A person operating a bicycle upon and along a sidewalk, or
across a roadway upon and along a crosswalk, shall have all
the rights and duties applicable to a pedestrian under the
same circumstances, except as provided in § 32-20B-3, and
except that bicyclists must stop before entering a crosswalk
or highway from a sidewalk or sidewalk area.

32-20B-3
Operation on sidewalk or
crosswalk--Duty to yield right-of-way to pedestrian--
Violation as misdemeanor

A person operating a bicycle upon and along a sidewalk, or
across a roadway upon and along a crosswalk, shall yield the
right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible
signal before overtaking and passing a pedestrian. A
violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

32-20B-4
Parking on sidewalk--Violation as
petty offense

A person may park a bicycle on a sidewalk unless prohibited
or restricted by an official traffic control device or
ordinance. The parked bicycle may not impede the normal and
reasonable movement of pedestrian or other traffic. A
violation of this section is a petty offense.

32-20B-5
Operation on roadway--Riding close
to right-hand curb required--Violation as misdemeanor

Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at less than
the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under
the conditions then existing shall ride as close as
practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.
However, a person operating a bicycle may move from the
right-hand curb or edge of the roadway to overtake and pass
another bicycle or vehicle proceeding in the same direction,
to prepare for a left turn at an intersection or into a
private road or roadway or to avoid conditions including,
but not limited to, fixed or moving objects, parked or
moving vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, animals, surface
hazards, or substandard width lanes that make it unsafe to
continue along the right-hand curb or edge. For purposes of
this section, a "substandard width lane" is a lane that is
too narrow for a bicycle and vehicle to travel safely side
by side within the lane. A violation of this section is a
Class 2 misdemeanor.

A person operating a bicycle shall give a continuous signal
of intention to turn right or left during the last one
hundred feet traveled by the bicycle before turning. The
signal shall also be given while the bicycle is stopped
waiting to turn. A signal by hand and arm need only be given
intermittently if the hand is needed in the control
operation of the bicycle. Except as provided in this
section, a person operating a bicycle shall comply with the
provisions of §§ 32-26-22 and 32-26-22.1. A violation of
this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

If bicycle is being used at night: Every
bicycle shall be equipped with a lighted lamp on the front
thereof visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a
distance of at least three hundred feet in front of such
bicycle and shall also be equipped with a reflex mirror or
lamp on the rear exhibiting a yellow or red light visible
under like conditions from a distance of at least two
hundred feet to the rear of such bicycle. A violation of
this section is a petty offense.

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